Pathology is branch of medical science that includes joined scientific examination of disorder whereby the causes, mechanisms and extent of weakness are examined.
In easy terms, pathology is scrutiny of cause and effects of sickness and injury.
Pathology is a branch of medical science that involves investigation of and diagnosis of complaint through scrutiny of surgically removed tissues, organs, body fluids, and in some cases summative body.
Specialist or Physician who practise Pathology is called Pathologist.
A physician practising Pathology is called Pathologist.
Pathological laboratory tests guide beyond 70% of medical decisions for patient care.
Types of Pathology Laboratories:
1. Hospital Labs:
Hospitals have an in-house laboratory to test bloods, bodily fluids, tissues, cells collected of Hospital Patients. The services of Hospital Labs would attach surgical pathology, cytopathology, autopsy etc.
Almost whatever hospitals contain a laboratory to sustain clinical services offered at hospital. Most, if not all, inpatient and many outpatients seen and admitted at hospital require test performed by labs of hospital.
2. Public Health Labs:
Public Health Laboratories are generally notify public organisation or government and local health departments to get diagnosis and guard public from health threats such as outbreaks of infectious disease.
These labs produce an effect tests to monitor prevalence of clear diseases in work which are public concern, such as outbreak of Covid 19, Corona, outbreak of foorborne or waterborne sickness etc.
3. Reference Labs:
Reference labs are usually private, commercial facilities that conducts high volume and speciality laboratory testing. Most of tests are referred from physician clinic, doctors clinic, hospitals and other tolerant care nursing homes. Reference labs, are generally third party laboratories that conduct and give laboratory services of doctors, hospitals, clinics and nursing homes for a fee. These referring doctors, clinics and hospitals refers their tests to outdoor labs because they do not have in-house pathology laboratory services.
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